The fast show, p16

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Katharine Whitehorn 12 James Delingpole 17 Rod Liddle 20 Ancient and modern 21 Matthew Parris 22 Barometer 26 Letters 27 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

Looking but untouched, p32

A China swan, p44

10 Fight or flight Any delay for Cameron,

and all will be lost James Forsyth 11 Kieron Winn

‘In the National Gallery’: a poem 14 IDS goes to war Britain’s minister against gangs

Fraser Nelson 16 One day in Headingley R.G.D. Willis, 30 years on

Michael Henderson 18 Keep the faith How the C of E can and will thrive

Tom Wright 20 Box-set bullies DVDs can ruin your holiday

Anthony Gardner 22 The fascist vote Riots bring out our authoritarians

Allan Massie 25 Playing with explosives

Westminster’s chief gossip Toby Young

BOOKS & ARTS

Boks 30 Jonathan Sumption The End, by Ian Kershaw 32 Christopher Howse The Redstone Book of the Eye,

by Julian Rothenstein Andrew Rosenheim

All the Time in the World, by E.L. Doctorow 33 Jason Goodwin The Beekeeper’s

Lament, by Hannah Nordhaus; Bees in the City, by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCall Ian Harrow ‘Habitué’: a poem 34 Harry Mount Nikolaus Pevsner, by Susie Harries 35 Richard Davenport-Hines And the Band Played On, by

Christopher Ward; How to Survive the Titanic, by Frances Wilson 36 A.N. Wilson Newman and His Contemporaries,

by Edward Short 37 Paul Binding Orpheus, byAnnWroe Paul Birtill ‘Required Reading’: a poem 38 Jonathan Mirsky The Fat Years, by Chan Koonchung

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